Adam Sandler, director Frank Coraci, and producer Tim Herlihy talk about Dolores, Cranberries and ?€?Linger?€?.
About the flashback scene where ?€?Linger?€? plays in a bar
Sandler: ?€?This is Herlihy?€™s favorite tune. He picked it. We all love it though. The Cranberries.?€?
Herlihy: ?€?It?€™s a great, great tune. A band from Ireland.?€?
Sandler: ?€?Great people. They came out here and sang the tune live at the wedding.?€?
Coraci: ?€?So when I filmed this, all the flashbacks tried to look the period. When I filmed this, I wanted it to look like late 80s, early 90s movie ?€“ a little bit overlit, movies like that, kind of crisp looking. The other [flashbacks] were 70s and all washed out and golden. But doesn?€™t this look a little bit like a movie from the 80s that you?€™d see on HBO? ?€¦We pushed it a little bit, the look, so that everybody looked more 80s than 90s. It?€™s really ?€™93 or something in the movie, but just to make it fun, we leaned a little back further on the way people dressed.?€?
About Dolores?€™s live performance
Sandler: ?€?Dolores came and sang for us, and she sings live. It sounds awesome. People were blown away every time she would sing.?€?
Coraci: ?€?At first we did pre-records, but then when she got loose, we said, would you mind singing live, so she sang live and that?€™s what?€™s in the movie. Her voice is just amazing.?€?
Sandler: ?€?She looks terrific.?€?
Coraci: ?€?That Irish thing works for her, eh? What a voice. So beautiful and sexy.?€?
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